METODO CIENTIFICO

Scientific method

Its steps are the following:

1. Obseravtion

2. Ask why?

3. Hypoyhesis

4. Data collection

5. Data analysis

6. Interpretation

7. Discussion of results

8. Conclusions

The relevance of the scientific method in OR

The ways of posing or identifying a problem will help us to structure our researching idea.

There are three elements interrelated to pose a problem:

1. The objectives of the research

2. The research questions

3. Justification of the study

4. The identificaction of the viability of the problem

These are intended to indicate what you want to achieve in the research and must be clearly expressed because they are the study guides.

This questions are also the guidelines of the objetive research, this questions should be specific and limited.

It is focused on 2 points:

• Why the researcher is researching the

problem?

• It is important for us to consider the

viability of the research.

The consequences of the researching

We always have an general objective.

Does the researcher have all the resources to carry ou the investigation?

After posing the problem, you need to formulate the hypothesis

Hypothesis

It is a statement in the form of proposition that aims anticipate an outcome or relationship cause effect. In other words, it is a tentative explanation.

Its types are the following:

Research hypothesis (main)

Null hypotheses

Alternative hypotheses

It corresponds to the prototypical problem that later must be brought to submission.

They constitute propositions about the relationship between variables that serve to refute or deny what the main hypothesis. Also these are stated in a negative way

They are alternate possibilities before research hypothesis and null: offer another explanation other than the provided by these types of hypothesis.